BETTY
GERALDINE WILLIS(1) was born on 11
Oct 1927 in RAYMOND, ALBERTA, CANADA. She was baptized on 16 Dec 1933. She
was endowed on 13 Mar 1946. She died on 29 Apr 1998 in WEST JORDAN, SALT LAKE
CO., UTAH. She was buried on 3 May 1998 in WEST JORDAN, SALT LAKE CO., UTAH.

NANCY
ACENTHIA WILSEY(1)
(photo) was born on 11 Dec 1839 in SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
CHECK THIS OUT, FROM JED'S BIBLE IT LISTED NANCY'S BIRTHPLACE AS SUSQUEHANNAH
CO., PENNSYLVANIA.

YEAR OF BIRTH WAS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE AS 1843 She died on 28 Mar 1923 in
THIEF RIVER FALLS, PENNINGTON CO., MINNESOTA. Nancy had been living with her
daughter at the time of her death. Her daughter was Mrs. Minnie Arnold.

At the time of her death, she left to mourn :
George William Wescott: Canada
Carrie Wescott Corbin: Washington
Arthur Wescott: Washington
Minnie Wescott: Minnesota

THE SAXON CHRONICLE IS A MANUSCRIPT WHICH WAS PAINSTAKINGLY RESEARCHED BY
MONKS OF THE 10TH CENTURY AND NOW DWELLS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. EMERGING THROUGH
THE CHRONICLES OF HISTORY IS ONE OF THE OLDEST FAMILY NAMES, WESCOTT AND THE
DISTINGUISHED HISTORY OF THIS SURNAME IS INTERWOVEN INTO THE TAPESTRY OF THE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
THE FIRST RECORD OF THE NAME WESCOTT, WAS FOUND IN DEVONSHIRE WHERE THEY HAD
BEEN SEATED FROM VERY ANCIENT TIMES, SOME SAY LONG BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
IN 1066.
THE NAME WESCOTT WAS FOUND IN THE ARCHIVES, THE NAME WAS SOMETIMES REVEALED
AS WESTCOTE, WESTCOT, WESTCOTT, WESTACOTT, AND THESE CHANGES IN SPELLING OCCURRED
EVEN BETWEEN FATHER AND SON. IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR A PERSON TO
BE BORN WITH ONE SPELLING VARIATION, MARRIED WITH ANOTHER, AND FOR YET ANOTHER
TO APPEAR ON HIS GRAVESTONE. SCRIBES SPELT THE NAME THE WAY IT SOUNDED AS IT
WAS TOLD TO THEM. FROM CENTURY TO CENTURY SPELLINGS CHANGED.
THE FAMILY NAME WESCOTT WAS FOUND TO BE DESCENDED FROM THE SAXON RACE. THE
SAXONS WERE A FAIR SKINNED PEOPLE LED BY THE BROTHERS GENERAL\COMMANDERS HENGIST
AND HORSA, WHO SETTLED IN ENGLAND FROM ABOUT THE YEAR 400 A.D. THEY SETTLED FIRSTLY
ON THE SOUTH EAST COAST, COMING FROM THE RHINE VALLEY. THEY SPREAD NORTH AND
WESTWARD FROM KENT AND DURING THE NEXT FOUR HUNDRED YEARS FORCED THE ANCIENT
BRITONS BACK INTO WALES AND CORNWALL TO THE WEST, CUMBRIA AND SCOTLAND TO THE
NORTH. THE ANGLES HELD THE EASTERN COASTLINE, THE SOUTH FOLK IN SUFFOLK, THE
NORTH FOLK IN NORFOLK. UNDER ANGLO\SAXON FIVE CENTURY RULE THE NATION DIVIDED
INTO FIVE SEPARATE KINGDOMS, A HIGH KING BEING ELECTED AS SUPREME RULER. ALFRED
THE GREAT EMERGED IN THE 9TH CENTURY AS THE SAXON LEADER TO DISPEL THE DANISH
INVASION.
ENGLAND, BY 1066, WAS ABLY LED BY HAROLD, KING OF THE SAXONS AND WAS ENJOYING
REASONABLE PEACE AND PROSPERITY. THE NORMAN INVASION FROM FRANCE UNDER DUKE WILLIAM
OF NORMANDY, AND THEIR VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, FOUND SAXON LAND OWNERS
TO BE FORFEITED THEIR LAND. WILLIAM, WITH AN ARMY OF 40,000 DROVE NORTH, WASTING
THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. BOTH REBELLIOUS NORMAN NOBLES AND SAXONS FLED OVER THE
BORDER INTO SCOTLAND. THOSE SAXONS WHO REMAINED WERE RESTIVE UNDER NORMAN RULE,
AND MANY MOVED NORTHWARD TO THE MIDLANDS, LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE WHERE NORMAN
INFLUENCED PREVAILED LESS.
THE FAMILY NAME WESCOTT EMERGED AS A NOTABLE ENGLISH FAMILY NAME IN THE COUNTY
OF DEVON. BY THE 14TH CENTURY THEY HAD BRANCHED TO RADDON IN THAT SAME SHIRE,
AND TO WESTCOTE IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER. OF THIS LATER BRANCH, THOMAS WESTCOTE
MARRIED INTO THE DISTINGUISHED LYTTELTON FAMILY, AND MARRIED ELIZABETH DE LYTTELTON.
THEY WERE ANCESTORS OF THE BARONS LYTTELTON, BARONS WESTCOTE, BARONS HATHERTON,
AND SO ON. THEY ALSO INTERMARRIED WITH THE QUARTERMAINES OF CORNWALL. NOTABLE
AMONGST THE FAMILY AT THIS TIME WAS SIR THOMAS WESTCOTE OF WESTCOTE.
THE NEXT TWO OR THREE CENTURIES FOUND THE SURNAME WESCOTT FLOURISHING AND CONTRIBUTING
GREATLY TO THE CULTURE OF THE NATION. DURING THE 16TH, 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES
ENGLAND WAS REAVAGED BY RELIGIOUS CONFLICT. PROTESTANTISM, THE NEWLY FOND POLITICAL
FERVOUR OF CROMWELLIANISM, AND THE REMNANTS OF THE ROMAN CHURCH REJECTED ALL
BUT THE MOST ARDENT FOLLOWERS. AS EACH GROUP GAINED POWER DURING THESE TURBULENT
TIMES MANY WERE BURNT AT THE STAKE BUT MANY MORE WERE BANISHED FROM THE LAND,
LOSING THEIR TITLES, ESTATES AND STATUS. MANY FAMILIES WERE FREELY "ENCOURAGED"
TO MIGRATE TOIRELAND, OR TO THE COLONIES. SOME WERE REWARED WITH GRANTS OF LANDS,
OTHERS WERE INDENTURED AS SERVANTS FOR AS LONG AS TEN YEARS.
IN IRELAND THEY BECAME KNOWN AS THE "ADVENTURERS FOR LAND IN IRELAND".
THEY WERE GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PRETESTANT SETTLERS WHO "UNDERTOOK"
TO KEEP THEIR FAITH, BEING GRANTED LANDS PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY THE CATHOLIC IRISH
FOR ONLY NOMINAL PAYMENT. THEY WERE ALSO KNOWN AS THE "UNDERTAKERS".
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE FAMILY NAME MIGRATED TO IRELAND, BUT THIS DOES
NOT PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF THEIR SCATTERED MIGRATION TO THAT COUNTRY.
THESE UNSETTLING TIMES WERE DISTURBING AND THE NEW WORLD BECKONED THE ADVENTUROUS.
THEY MIGRATED, SOME VOLUNTARILY FROM IRELAND, SOME BY ARMY SERVICE, BUT MOSTLY
DIRECTLY FROM ENGLAND, THEIR HOME TERRITORIES. SOME ALSO MOVED TO THE EUROPEAN
CONTINENT. MEMBERS OFTHE FAMILY NAME WESCOTT SAILED ABOARD THE ARMADA OF SMALL
SAILING SHIPS KNOWN AS THE "WHITE SAILS" WHICH PLIED THE STORMY ATLANTIC.
THESE OVERCROWDED SHIPS WERE PESTILENCE RIDDEN, SOMETIMES 30% TO 40% OF THE PASSENGER
LIST NEVER REACHING THEIR DESTINATION, THEIR NUMBERS DECIMATED BY SICKNESS AND
THE ELEMENTS. MANY WERE BURIED AT SEA.
INCLUDED AMONGST THE FIRST MIGRANTS WHO SETTLED IN NORTH AMERICA WHICH COULD
BE CONSIDERED A KINSMAN OF THE SURNAME WESCOTT, OR A VARIABLE SPELLING OF THAT
FAMILY NAME WAS JOHN WESTCOTT WAS A SHOREMAN OF ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND IN 1774;
DANIEL WESTCOAT SETTLED IN BOSTON, MASS. IN 1766; PETER AND SARAH WESTCOATE SETTLED
IN NEW ENGLAND IN 1771; STUKLEY WESTCOTT SETTLED IN SALEM, MASS. IN 1630; JOHN
WESTCUTT SETTLED IN BARBADOS IN 1700.
THE EAST COAST PORTS WERE CROWDED. FROM THE PORT OF ENTRY MANY SETTLERS TREKKED
THEIR WAY WEST, JOINING THE WAGON TRAINS TO THE PRAIRIES OR TO THE WEST COAST.
DURING THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, MANY LOYALISTS MADE THEIR WAY NORTH
TO CANADA ABOUT 1790, AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS. THEY WERE
GRANTED EQUIVALENT LANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AND IN THE
NIAGARA PENINSULA.. CONTEMPORARY NOTABLES OF THIS SURNAME, WESCOTT, INCLUDE MANY
DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE WESTCOTT, FREELANCE WRITER; BROOKE WESTCOTT,
BISHOP OF DURHAM; PROFESSOR JOHN WESTCOTT, COMPUTER SCIENCES.
IN REGARDS TO THE COAT OF ARMS. THERE WERE MANY COAT OF ARMS GRANTED TO DIFFERENT
BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY NAME.
THE MOST ANCIENT GRANT OF A COAT OF ARMS FOUND WAS:
SILVER WITH A RED HORIZONTAL STRIPE AND AT THE TOP THREE COVERED CUPS.
THE CREST IS: A MOOR'S HEAD.
THE ANCIENT FAMILY MOTTO FOR THIS DISTINGUISHED NAME IS:
"RENOVATO NOMINE". Children were:
GEORGE WILLIAM WESCOTT, CAROLINE ALMIRA WESCOTT
, LUTHER W. WESCOTT, ARTHUR
WESLEY WESCOTT, MINNIE MAY WESCOTT,
ELSIE LEILA WESCOTT, BLOSSOM WESCOTT.